Each episode of ADOPTION DIARIES follows a different compelling story from the beginning stages, as a birth mother is faced with the daunting task of choosing her baby’s future family. Viewers follow along as a couple is selected and hear their own unique story, many of which include years of roller coaster emotions surrounding their infertility, the decision to adopt and the overall process itself. Each set of adoptive parents works closely with Jennifer Bliss to develop what will be a lifelong relationship with the birth mother. Together they share in the experience of creating a family, from pregnancy through birth, and the child’s future. Open adoption is a unique process, filled with overwhelming emotions as life is gifted from one mother to another, and families are brought together for the sake of a child’s future.

Like many open adoption advocates, I (Dawn) have concerns about the show and the impact that rolling cameras have as a woman or couple struggle to make a lifelong decision about what is best for their baby. I am concerned about the use of the term “birth mother” before the woman has signed surrenders. Further, how does being filmed for an open adoption television show impact a woman’s decision making process? Once her baby is born and she is revisiting her choices, how will the pressures of camera and a crew (and the unseen television audience) influence her decision?

Television cameras have no place in an adoption plan, period.

It would be one thing to see realistic stories about open adoptions already in place but in a continued search for sensationalized stories to serve to a jaded audience, WE tv is going too far.

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